The Miitomo Alice War

The Miitomo Alice War was an event that took place on the now discontinued mobile app, “Miitomo” created by Nintendo. The War consisted of people trying to stop the Mii, named Alice, from being spammed all over Miitomo’s Style and Sidekick Centrals. The War went on until Miitomo’s eventual shut down on May 9th, 2018.

History:
DisorderDoll, a Miitomo user, had created a Mii called, “Doll”. Which was slightly edited by an unknown user to later become Alice. It’s still unknown who created the original modified Doll Mii.

Later, Alice had been widespread all over Miitomo. Style Central had been overrun with Alice to the point where every other Mii was an Alice Mii. Nintendo would then role out an update which contained the new Sidekick and Answer Centrals.

Sidekick Central allowed comments to be posted on Miis, which is where the #stopalice and #savealice hashtags originated. It got to the point where people made another Mii called Jodie, Jodie looked slightly different, having more of a resemblance to Doll than Alice, with the inclusion of brown hair in a ponytail. People had also taken the Alice Mii, and converted its face into an X. Naming it, “#stopalice”.

At this point, Alice had basically invaded all of Miitomo. Many people started deleting the app due to Alice, which is what caused Nintendo to shut down the app.

Surprisingly, the Alice War was still going on after Miitomo shut down, although on other platforms. People were blaming Alice as the reason for the shutdown, before the War eventually stopped altogether and everyone moved on with their lives instead of focussing on one little Mii.

Why It’s Cringe:

 * Many people under the age of 13, (Including myself at the time) were spamming the Mii to farm likes.
 * The fact that the war moved on to other platforms is honestly outstanding to me and a bunch of others.
 * When Alice started to die down a little in late 2017, people theorized that Nintendo had begun suppressing Alice, but then Alice skyrocketed again.
 * Many troll accounts pretending to be Alice were created.

Impact:
Alice had a mixed impact. It actually brought people together somehow, while in the process ruining a perfectly good app. The War was petty, but it did some good things in the process of doing bad things, such as helping people make friends, encouraging others to get the app, and even getting people who didn't have the app involved in the drama somehow.

Overall, The Miitomo Alice War is the perfect example of how to ruin a social media app, while also doing some good things.